Soap holder



I. MORSE SOAP HOLDER Jul 17, 1951 Filed Aug. 26, 1949 INVENTOR ISIDORE MORSE Patented July 17, 1951 SOAP HOLDER Isidore Morse, Bronx, N. Y.

Application August 26, 1949, Serial No. 112,449

Claims.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in cup-like soap holders; and, more particularly, the aim is to provide a novel and valuable such holder, of skeletal type, and providing a foraminous dish within which a soap cake may be placed, and then to have said cake disposed for good air drying between uses, yet a soap dish involving various improvements having especially to do with the above and other advantages, and with, at the same time, im-

the same time, important reductions in the cost of fabrication of the new soap dish as compared with previous proposals in the art.

A feature of the invention is the provision of a soap dish which is wholly made of a single unitary length of bent wire, with a portion of the length thereof formed to present a conically spirally extended coil.

Another feature of the invention is, as a consequence, the provision of a structure affording the quick air drying advantage above referred to, is that a comparatively short length of wire ,is required for the fabrication of a soap holder of a given size.

Still a further feature of the invention is that, despite the saving of wire just alluded to, this resulting from rather considerable spacing of one convolution or full turn of said coil from an adjoining one in a direction radially of the axis of the truncated cone defining said coil, a means is provided integral with the wire itself for insuring against an accidental slippage of the soap cake relative to the bent wire member, even when the soap. cake is considerably thinned as the result of repeated previous uses thereof, in a direction to make egress from the holder by way of a space between the convolutions of the bent wire member.

For further comprehension of the invention, and of the objects and advantages thereof, reference will be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, and to the appended claims in which the various novel features of portant reductions in the cost of fabrication of The soap holder, according to the first form of the present invention shown in Figs. 1 to 3, includes a single length of wire it bent tohave substantially three fully convolutions of a spiral, these convolutions being present in such way as to define a rather shallow truncated cone. The comparatively wide spacings between the different convolutions is particularly to be noted, as this gives large air drying capacity and at the same time permits a saving in the cost of the Wire material.

One terminal portion ll of the wire I!) is rectilinearly extended at a slight upward angle to the horizontal, in such manner as to abut at different points along the three convolutions shown. Said terminal portion ll of the wire ll! at a point somewhat above the uppermost convolution is bent to extend thereabove at a greater angle to the vertical than the remaining length of said terminal portion II.

The bottom and smallest convolution of the spiral is designated M.

The opposite terminal portion I5 of the wire lllparticipates in the formation of the uppermost and largest spiral.

At the four points i6 along the wire where portions thereof cross other portions thereof, these wire portions are permanently secured together as by welding.

The extreme outer end of the subdivision 1 2 of the terminal portion II of the wire It is bent into an eye-like formation H. The formation I! may be engaged by the shank of a nail, screw or hook sent into a wall or other support, and, then the new soap holder will droop to a position such that the general plane of the uppermost convolution will be at an ideal angle to the horizontal for facing a person wishing to take a soap cake from the holder or to return a soap cake thereto.

With the new soap holder thus hung on a wall or the like, or with the holder hung but arranged to have its lowermost convolution i l substantially horizontal (which could be predetermined, for instance, by having the subdivision l2 of the terminal portion ll of the wire IE) bent so as to be vertically upstanding), or with the holder resting on its bottom convolution on the flat upper surface of a plate-like or other underlying support, nevertheless even a very wet and slipperysoap cake is prevented, by means to be explained in a moment, from slipping out of the holder by way of the large space between one of its convolutions and a convolution therebelow.

One form of such means is illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, as comprising a suitable number of suitably spaced reentrant bends, respectively designated l8, l9, 2i], 2i, 22, 23, 24, 25 and '25.

These bends extend alternately radially inwardly and outwardly with relation to the particular convolution in which the bends are formed.

As indicated in Fig. 2, the said reentrant bends may be upwardly obliquely inclined.

In Figs. 4 and 5, where the parts to which reference numerals with primes added correspond, respectively, to the parts to which have been, applied the same reference numerals but without primes, said reentrant bends are shown as substantially vertically upstanding.

While I have illustrated and described the preferred embodiments of my invention, it is to be understood that I do not limit myself to the precise constructions herein disclosed and the right is reserved to all changes and mod fications coming within the scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by United States Letters Patent is:

1. A soap holder constructed of a single length of bent wire, said wire being bent to provide a skeletal downwardly shallowly dished structure including a plurality of the convolutions of a conical spiral, one terminal portion of said wire being included in the uppermost convolution of the largest size and at its tip being permanently secured as by welding to a point along the wire such that the said terminal portion completes said uppermost convolution, the other terminal portion of said wire, starting from a point where the lowermost convolution of the spiral is completed, being substantially rectilinearly upwardly extended in a plane substantially radial to the truncated cone defined by the spiral, thereby to arrange the last-named terminal portion of the wire in abutment against a plurality of points along the wire included in said uppermost convolution and in an intermediate convolution, said last-named terminal portion of the wire being permanently secured as by welding at each of the last-named points, said last-named terminal portion at its free end being formed into an eye-like formation.

2. A soap holder constructed of a single length of bent wire, said wire being bent to provide a skeletal downwardly shallowly dished structure including a plurality of the convolutions of a conical spiral, one terminal portion of said wire being included in the uppermost convolution of the largest size and at its tip being permanently secured as by welding to a point along the wire such that the said terminal portion completes said uppermost convolution, the other terminal portion of said wire, starting from a point where the lowermost convolution of the spiral is completed, being substantially rectilinearly upwardly extended in a plane substantially radial to the truncated cone defined by the spiral, thereby to arrange the last-named terminal portion of the wire in abutment against a plurality of points along the wire included in said uppermost convolution and in an intermediate convolution, said last-named terminal portion of the wire being permanently secured as by welding at each of the last-named points, said last-named terminal portion at its free end being formed into an eye-like formation, said wire at spaced intervals 4 along the length of the spiral being reentrantly bent.

3. A soap holder constructed of a single length of bent wire, said wire being bent to provide a skeletal downwardly shallowly dished structure including a plurality of the convolutions of a conical spiral, one terminal portion of said wire being included in the uppermost convolution of the largest size and at its tip being permanently secured as by welding to a point along the wire such that the said terminal portion completes said uppermost convolution, the other terminal portion of said wire, starting from a point where the lowermost convolution of the spiral is completed, being substantially rectilinearly upwardly extended in a plane substantially radial to the truncated cone defined by the spiral, thereby to arrange the last-named terminal portion of the wire in abutment against a plurality of points along the wire included in said uppermost convolution and in an intermediate convolution, said last-named terminal portion of the wire being permanently secured as by welding at each of the last-named points, said last-named terminal portion at its free end being formed into an eye-like formation, said wire at spaced intervals along the length of the spiral being reentrantly bent, such bends being extended alternately radially inwardly and outwardly with relation to the particular convolution in which said bends are formed.

4. A soap holder constructed of a single length of bent wire, said wire being bent to provide a skeletal downwardly shallowly dished structure including a plurality of the convolutions of a conical spiral, one terminal portion of said wire being included in the uppermost convolution of the largest size and at its tip being permanently secured as by welding to a point along the wire such that the said terminal portion completes said uppermost convolution, the other terminal portion of said wire, starting from a point where the lowermost convolution of the spiral is completed, being substantially rectilinearly upwardly extended in a plane substantially radial to the truncated cone defined by the spiral, thereby to arrange the last-named terminal portion of the wire in abutment against a plurality of points along the wire included in said uppermost convolution and in an intermediate convolution, said last-named terminal portion of the wire being permanently secured as by welding at each of the last-named points, said last-named terminal portion at its free end being formed into an eye-like formation, said wire at spaced intervals along the length of the spiral being reentrantly bent, such bends being upwardly extended.

5. A soap holder constructed of a single length of bent wire, said wire being bent to provide a skeletal downwardly shallowly dished structure including a plurality of the convolutions of a conical spiral, one terminal portion of said wire being included in the uppermost convolution of the largest size and at its tip being permanently secured as by welding to a point along the wire such that the said terminal portion completes said uppermost convolution, the other terminal portion of said wire, starting from a point where the lowermost convolution of the spiral is completed, being substantially rectilinearly upwardly extended in a plane substantially radial to the truncated cone defined by the spiral, thereby to arrange the last-named terminal portion of the wire in abutment against a plurality of points along the wire included in said uppermost conlast-named terminal Wire portion remote from said formation.

ISIDO'RE MORSE.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS m Number Name Date 1,134,144 McKinley Apr. 6, 1915 1,219,370 Bray Mar. 13, 1917 2,318,930 Dietrich May 11, 1943 

